About
Jeff founded Burns Firm in 2021 to serve hard-working individuals and small organizations wanting legal offerings to start, grow, and shield their livelihoods and nest eggs. Jeff has experienced lots of proceedings as a former business litigator and former Circuit Court judge, and he can draw on this wealth of enjoy to assist his customers with their desires.
Jeff concentrates his regulation exercise on commercial enterprise regulation, actual property law, belongings law, water regulation, asset-protection regulation, and simple property planning. Before he took the bench as a Circuit Court judge, Jeff focused on complicated business litigation, nearby government representation, and appellate law. He efficaciously argued cases before federal and kingdom trial and appellate courts all through Florida and Alabama on this pre-decide existence. During his existence as a judge, he presided over hundreds of enterprise instances, real property cases, and assets cases – experiencing a broad variety of business and actual estate troubles that probable might have been prevented with counseling earlier than any lawsuit changed into filed.
Jeff presently sits as a member of the Florida Supreme Court s Jury Instructions Committee for Business Cases. He has previously sat on the Editorial Board for the Florida Bar Journal, the highest quality source of practical articles on Florida law published by way of the Florida Bar to educate lawyers and non-lawyers on pertinent felony troubles. Jeff has additionally been previously recognized for his pro-bono service by way of Northwest Florida Legal Aid.
Jeff previously practiced with Anchors Smith Grimsley, one of the oldest corporations within the Florida Panhandle. He represented small-business clients in industrial disputes, monetary institutions in various civil proceedings, individual customers in real property cases, and governmental entities as out of doors standard recommend. Before that, he clerked with a non-public standard practice company in regulation school, worked for the Florida Department of Financial Services, and interned on the State Lawyer s Office.
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- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Easements, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Landlord Rights
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
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- English
